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Who did the Showgirl aesthetic best and worst?
Obviously it's Legend Kylie. I will say I give a runner up award to Taylor because as much as she is the exact opposite of a showgirl she bodied it in a way that felt authentic to her. Christina and Gaga slayed too. Gaga felt like she added her own flavour to it and it's one of her less OTT outfits ironically which is refreshing, sometimes less is more.
- Reneé Rapp accused of transphobia for Call Her Daddy interview
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Miley addresses online criticism after Bowl performance
She's honestly in her prime and only getting more self assured as an artist and a woman, which does tend to make certain types of people seethe. She's right to call out the entitlement, just shut up and go listen to AI music. Look at JoJo's comments about live singing recently, it says it all. Miley has navigated the last decade very well and I think her maturity and intellect shine through in her work and her desire to grow. Touring is an insane amount of pressure, and artists had no choice but to do it because it was a way to make serious money. That's changing now because things became too expensive and the first thing people cut back on is the arts, so she's right to protect her peace and have boundaries. A little respect for the artist wouldn't go astray, people are so entitled sometimes. Spending a few hundred dollars does not really give you justification to be an entitled brat, you don't own them, it's just creepy atp, so chill.
- Can sales alone make you a legend?
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Britney clocks haters & imiTATErs
This thread is a mess. She doesn't name anybody specific and her entire career she has faced an industry trying to clone her… it's nothing new and the comparisons to Lil Lim/Nicki or Madonna/Gaga is such a reach… Nicki was absolutely brutal to Lil Kim and suggesting this is Britney doing a Nicki coke rant makes it hard to take such an argument seriously. People are so thirsty for drama and conflict.
- Cher teases collaboration with a mysterious artist, crazy collab; also new abum
- You are a Grammy voting member of the Recording Academy. Your AOTY?
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Did "Housewife" just confirm that Tate McRae has absolutely nothing to say?
I hadn't heard it yet but just watched the video and have to say I am so here for the effort she puts into performing, it's refreshing and this is like the anti tradwife anthem and exactly what we need to be seeing from our Gen Z girlies. I support it
- Rebecca More - They Were The Best Times (music video)
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Rebecca More - They Were The Best Times (music video)
- Britney: « Janet has always been God to me »
Two women who were driven out of their industry by being treated like absolute ****. This is a lovely post and it's nice to see something a bit less cryptic and more sincere from Britney. I don't follow her, but ya'll should give this as much attention as you give the negative posts, give her some reinforcement lol- Stephanie Mills - "Lady Gaga is a culture vulture"
She is kinda a culture vulture depending on which definition you go by, but I feel like she didn't give any examples but this one instance and it being herself. If you're going to accuse her of being a culture vulture like there's countless things to point to that are way more valid, this ain't it. I think she moves quickly between things and adopts ideas, personas, and aesthetics from many corners of culture and art, but I think it's because primarily she's driven by fame and she is smart about where to showcase her artistry to maintain fame. But that's also her job… you could say the same about David Bowie. Yeah the way this ended up actually only making Gaga look better. Shes going to accuse Gaga of being a culture vulture based on nothing and then claim MJ never molested a child? Embarassing.- Confession time: Classics you initially didn't like that you love now
Every classic begins as some random new song , and there's definitely times where I know I've initially gotten it wrong and not clicked with a song, only to switch like a ***** later. When Single Ladies came out, even as a Bey fan, I hated it (I think because I really disliked the other A-side If I Were a Boy and I wanted Bday Bey), it didn't click at all. Don't get me wrong, I loved the rest of Sasha Fierce, but god I was so wrong it's embarassing, Single Ladies was just too much of a classic for me to comprehend it. The fact I liked Sweet Dreams more than Single Ladies…. Similarly, I didn't really click with Gimme More at first, idek why, but a few years later I repented and became obsessed. I think I thought it was too autotuned or something, now I hear the rich ad libs and her vocals are heavenly. Maybe I had to wait for my inner heaux to wake up to truly get it. What classics did you miss at first that later clicked?- Britney's "3": what if it led the Femme Fatale era?
Criminal was from the original sessions before Dr Luke took over which is my point. The best songs on it imo are by Max, Bloodshy, Darkchild etc. not Dr Luke (Hold it Against Me), Big Fat Bass (Will.i.am), etc. and keep in mind criminal only became a single because fans voted for it and ended up being a lowkey sleep and streaming hit. It's still a good album, but imo the parts influenced by Dr Luke and Will.i.am were nowhere near as timeless or memorable as the tracks I listed. I Wanna Go and Criminal from the earlier sessions seemed to be songs Britney was way more interested and invested in, Hold it Against Me she refused to participate in parts of the video (same as Till the World Ends) and they just used body doubles in ways that were just plain weird, plus she even made it pretty clear on set during the behind the scenes of the video that she didn't really like filming it… for a woman under a coercive conservatorship, that's about as close as she could get to outright saying it wasn't something she would've picked. She didn't even remember how to pronounce Kesha's name despite her being on a remix and being a songwriter so it's safe to say she was not very invested In that. I don't actually know for sure. I think it would've been a dance pop album with some pop rock influences in the production (Don't Keep Me Waiting and He About to Lose Me would be the pop rock side) and then the pure pop like Criminal, 3, Scary, Up n Down, and I Wanna Go. interestingly aside from Scary and Don't Keep Me Waiting, she performed these on tour, and the theme of the tour was a woman trying to escape surveillance and control, and often featured her in a cage which was a repeated theme she used. It would not have had **** like Big Fat Bass and I think it would've also not had as much dubstep which was clearly Dr Luke and Cirkut's influence. I do think the album that got released was great, and the production was huge at the time but in hindsight I go back to the tracks that don't involve Dr Luke/william far more, they have more character to them and given what we know about the conservatorship as well as Dr Luke, I look back on a lot of this differently now because at the time it was assumed she was in charge but we now know she wasn't and it was a constant struggle for her to even get sushi, buy clothes, or say no to a dance move. There are reports of issues on multiple music video sets including Make Me where she voiced he opposition and discomfort and wasn't listened to. So we can never know for sure, but I guess this is my Charlie Day attempt at trying to piece it together from what we know. I guess I've stepped back a lot as a fan because I feel really gross about consuming music that she was forced to do, and it's my way of trying to figure that out. You can definitely hear when her heart is in it, and when it's not everyone noticed - people noticed the Myah vocals in Britney Jean, the body doubles in the videos and more, and that was before we knew what we know now.- Winnie the Pooh turns 100.
This is misinformation he's 73, not 100. - Britney: « Janet has always been God to me »